Sawyer Paul's Blog, page 25
May 10, 2019
More Things, May 11, 2019
It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.
The Game Boy paved the way for the Nintendo Switch
Climbing Everest with #CopyPasteCris
Fighting in Drag with LGBTQ Wrestlers
A Phantom Gary Vaynerchuk Yells at Me Every Night And It’s Time To Talk About It
Disney CEO Bob Iger’s compensation is “insane,” says Abigail Disney
Appreciating The Game Boy, Thirty Years Later
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away
Choke Me, Spit On Me, I’m a Feminist — Part One
Can You Enjoy Exercise and Not Be A Douchebag?
Blockbuster Films Keep Getting Longer; How And Why Did We Get Here?
Workers Love AirPods Because Employers Stole Their Walls
How to reduce digital distractions: advice from medieval monks
Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
Why You Should Start Binge-Reading Right Now
Inside Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows, Office, and work
May 8, 2019
Cura, May 9, 2019
Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.
Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.
I hope you like it. I made it for you.
Here’s the track listing for this week:
Pacify Her By Melanie Martinez
i wanna be your girlfriend By girl in red
It’s Only Sex By Car Seat Headrest
May 6, 2019
Lumia 800
This was the first Windows Phone that was worth a damn. It’s certainly the only Windows Phone 7 Series that’s worth a damn.
3.7″ screen. 16gb of storage. Glorious, glorious AMOLED. It still looks better than any LCD on any iPhone.
This model was my wife’s. Mine was cyan, and broke on the day I proposed. I smashed the screen, but the ring was in my pocket. I didn’t care.
It amazes me how much of Windows Phone 7, and the Zune HD interface that preceeded it, is still present in Windows 10.
The FM radio app was unchanged from the Zune HD. The Music app was upgraded to allow direct downloads from the store, if you had a Zune Pass (today known as Apple Music, or Spotify, or whatever).
It was this beautiful small thing. Slightly larger than an original iPhone, but felt so much smaller in the hand. More like a pebble than the Palm Pre. Elegent.
I know it was a “smartphone,” but the Lumia 800 felt more like a Zune HD 2. Limited, sure, but stunning.
April 29, 2019
Impact Wrestling Photos and GIFs
I don’t normally keep the “live” part of the photos I take with my iPhone. I generally just back up my photos to Onedrive, which only keeps the still anyway. But sometimes the live photo is useful, like when you go to a wrestling show and the performers move very fast. I was at the April 28 Impact Wrestling show at the Rebel Complex in Toronto, and I think I got some good ones.
I made these using Gifwrapped.
Below are select Gifs and photos I took. You can see more of the Gifs at my Giphy page.
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April 25, 2019
Cura, April 26, 2019
Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.
Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.
I hope you like it. I made it for you.
Here’s the track listing for this week:
Hoyt And Schermerhorn By Leikeli47
On the Edge of Time By Jens Lekman
All The Pretty Girls By Vera Blue
April 22, 2019
Fran’s Not Here 37 - Ballfoonery
Listen on Fran’s Not Here’s Website
Recorded live at the Free Times Café on April 23, 2019
Can you and your ball get a room already or whatever
April 15, 2019
Cura, April 16, 2019
Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.
Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.
I hope you like it. I made it for you.
You can also listen to it on Pacemaker.
Here’s the track listing for this week:
Hoyt And Schermerhorn By Leikeli47
On the Edge of Time By Jens Lekman
All The Pretty Girls By Vera Blue
April 14, 2019
More Things, April 15, 2019
It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.
Do Not Live Life to the Fullest
I Let a Stranger Watch Me Work for a Day — And I’ve Never Been More Productive
ContraPoints Is the Opposite of the Internet
‘Parks and Recreation’ Is the America We Were Promised
Against Chill: Apathetic Music to Make Spreadsheets To
Capturing the darkness + describing the light
April 8, 2019
Cura, April 9, 2019
Note: The playlist embedded above will always be the most recent playlist and might not match the list below.
Cura is my Spotify mixtape. You can listen to it and subscribe here. I keep it as one playlist so it’s easy to subscribe to. I update it fairly frequently, but I also keep an archive playlist so you don’t have to miss a thing.
You can also hear this mixtape on Pacemaker.
I hope you like it. I made it for you.
Here’s the track listing for this week:
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone By Sleater-Kinney
Sitting Down Here By Lene Marlin
In The Waiting Line By Zero 7, Sophie Barker
April 2, 2019
More Things, April 3, 2019
It wouldn’t be a personal blog without a link list of stuff I liked around the web.
Quitting Social Media Will Save Your Life. I Think.
In Defence of the Instagram Reading List
Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)
Cardhop for iOS Review: A Powerful New Alternative to Apple’s Contacts
Social Media Is Ruining Our Memories
Are We Living in a Golden Age of ’90s Period Films?
Seven new anime series to watch this spring
The impossible architecture of video games
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
The Science of Sleep and Productivity
